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> Could I pick it up in five minutes if I needed to? Sure.

Yes, because you do know the basic concepts of using a CLI, the concepts around building your project, and the concepts of project metadata, build tools and etc.

When people can't run their programs without an IDE, it's because they don't know any of that. This is an at minimum 6 months learning of the unwritten culture of a profession. This is not something one can pick up in 5 minutes. It is also a huge signal that those people are missing other fundamental and important pieces of knowledge.

(That is, unless the OP is literally complaining that he threw people on a random computer CLI and people couldn't make their code run there. Personally, I have never seen anybody making this point, but I guess it's possible.)



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